{"id":386,"date":"2007-10-03T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2007-10-03T23:13:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:13:06","slug":"managing-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Managing Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a bit of a foray into barcode recognition on the webcam, a friend at work talked me into buying a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CueCat\">CueCat<\/a> off eBay. Well, he had the eBay account, so he actually bought it. All of about $13 including shipping. So for that price, I decided to give up on the image recognition and just use the CueCat to scan barcodes. It&#8217;s a modified CueCat so it&#8217;s really easy &#8211; just plug into the USB port and scan, and it&#8217;s just as if you typed the barcode and pressed return.<\/p>\n<p>So I looked into library software, and first tried out <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandria.rubyforge.org\/\">Alexandria<\/a>. Not bad, but it crashes a lot. Really a lot. Randomly. However, it doesn&#8217;t seem to lose data, so that&#8217;s something at least. After fiddling with that a bit, I happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/periapsis.org\/tellico\/\">Tellico<\/a>. Now this is much better. It deals with all sorts of stuff &#8211; books, CDs, movies, games, etc. Everything I need to manage! But it does have some issues with getting confused about searches now and again, when I switch between ISBN and title searches and UK and US amazon. I discovered that the version in the default Ubuntu repository is quite old, so I switched to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imalip.info\/tellico\/\">latest and greatest<\/a>. Perhaps that will improve things.<\/p>\n<p>Overall though, I&#8217;m pretty impressed. I have managed to enter half of a bookshelf this evening. That&#8217;s roughly one twelfth of my books (not counting the books at work). So in a little while, look out for my library catalogue getting published online!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a bit of a foray into barcode recognition on the webcam, a friend at work talked me into buying a CueCat off eBay. Well, he had the eBay account, so he actually bought it. All of about $13 including shipping. So for that price, I decided to give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}